#!/bin/sh # Copyright (C) 2003-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # # Script to generate a core file of a running program. # It starts up gdb, attaches to the given PID and invokes the gcore command. # PKGVERSION="@PKGVERSION@" VERSION="@VERSION@" # Need to check for -o option, but set default basename to "core". prefix=core # When the -a option is present, this may hold additional commands # to ensure gdb dumps all mappings (OS dependent). use_coredump_filter= dump_excluded_mappings= data_directory= # The GDB binary to run. gdb_binary= print_usage() { prefix="Usage: $0" padding=$(printf '%*s' ${#prefix}) echo "$prefix [-h|--help] [-v|--version]" echo "$padding [-a] [-o prefix] [-g gdb] [-d data-directory]" echo "$padding pid1 [pid2...pidN]" } print_try_help() { echo "Try '$0 --help' for more information." } print_help() { print_usage echo echo "Create a core file of a running program using GDB." echo echo " -h, --help Print this message then exit." echo " -v, --version Print version information then exit." echo " -a Dump all memory mappings." echo " -o prefix Use 'prefix.pid' as the core file name." echo " The default prefix is 'core'." echo " -g gdb The GDB binary to run." echo " Defaults to GDB installed alongside gcore." echo " -d dir Pass '--data-directory dir' as an argument" echo " to GDB." } print_version() { echo "GNU gcore (${PKGVERSION}) ${VERSION}" } while getopts vhao:g:d:-: OPT; do if [ "$OPT" = "-" ]; then OPT="${OPTARG%%=*}" OPTARG="${OPTARG#"$OPT"}" OPTARG="${OPTARG#=}" fi case "$OPT" in a) case "$(uname -s)" in Linux) use_coredump_filter="off" dump_excluded_mappings="on" ;; esac ;; o) prefix=$OPTARG ;; g) gdb_binary="$OPTARG" ;; d) data_directory="$OPTARG" ;; h | help) print_help exit 0 ;; v | version) print_version exit 0 ;; \?) # getopts has already output an error message. print_try_help 1>&2 exit 2 ;; *) # Unknown single character options are handled by the \? # case above. This is formatted to match the error # getopts gives for an unknown single character option. echo "$0: illegal option -- $OPT" 1>&2 print_try_help 1>&2 exit 2 ;; esac done shift $((OPTIND-1)) if [ "$#" -eq "0" ] then print_usage 1>&2 exit 1 fi # Attempt to fetch the absolute path to the gcore script that was # called. binary_path=$(dirname "$0") if test "$binary_path" = . ; then # We got "." back as a path. This means the user executed # the gcore script locally (i.e. ./gcore) or called the # script via a shell interpreter (i.e. sh gcore). binary_basename=$(basename "$0") # If the gcore script was called like "sh gcore" and the script # lives in the current directory, "which" will not give us "gcore". # So first we check if the script is in the current directory # before using the output of "which". if test -f "$binary_basename" ; then # We have a local gcore script in ".". This covers the case of # doing "./gcore" or "sh gcore". binary_path="." else # The gcore script was not found in ".", which means the script # was called from somewhere else in $PATH by "sh gcore". # Extract the correct path now. binary_path_from_env=$(which "$0") binary_path=$(dirname "$binary_path_from_env") fi fi if [ -z "$gdb_binary" ]; then gdb_binary="$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@" fi gdb_binary_basename=$(basename "$gdb_binary") # Check if the GDB binary is in the expected path. If not, just # quit with a message. if [ ! -f "$gdb_binary" ]; then echo "gcore: GDB binary ($gdb_binary) not found" exit 1 fi # Initialise return code. rc=0 # Loop through pids for pid in "$@" do # `